William Auerbach-Levy

William Auerbach-Levy
William Auerbach-Levy

William Auerbach-Levy

American painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1889–1964
BiographyBorn in Belarus, Auerbach-Levy emigrated to the United States in 1894. He studied in New York and Paris and taught at the National Academy of Design. He is best known as a caricaturist, whose send-ups of celebrities appeared in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, but he also etched sensitive portraits.
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  • artists
  • illustrators
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